What does WEED mean?
Definitions for WEED
widweed
This dictionary definitions page includes all the possible meanings, example usage and translations of the word WEED.
Princeton's WordNet
weednoun
any plant that crowds out cultivated plants
weed, mourning bandnoun
a black band worn by a man (on the arm or hat) as a sign of mourning
pot, grass, green goddess, dope, weed, gage, sess, sens, smoke, skunk, locoweed, Mary Janeverb
street names for marijuana
weedverb
clear of weeds
"weed the garden"
Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
Weednoun
Etymology: weod , Saxon, tares.
If he had an immoderate ambition; which is a weed, if it be a weed, apt to grow in the best soils, it doth not appear that it was in his nature. Edward Hyde.
He wand’ring feeds
On slowly growing herbs and ranker weeds. George Sandys.Too much manuring fill’d that field with weeds,
While sects, like locusts, did destroy the seeds. John Denham.Stinking weeds and poisonous plants have their use. More.
When they are cut, let them lie, if weedy, to kill the weeds. John Mortimer, Husbandry.
Their virtue, like their Tyber’s flood
Rolling, its course design’d the country’s good;
But oft the torrent’s too impetuous speed,
From the low earth tore some polluting weed;
And with the blood of Jove there always ran
Some viler part, some tincture of the man. Matthew Prior.My mind for weeds your virtue’s livery wears. Philip Sidney.
Neither is it any man’s business to cloath all his servants with one weed; nor theirs to cloath themselves so, if left to their own judgments. Richard Hooker.
They meet upon the way
An aged sire, in long black weeds yclad;
His feet all bare, his beard all hoary gray,
And by his belt his book he hanging had. Fairy Queen.Livery is also called the upper weed which a serving man wears, so called as it was delivered and taken from him at pleasure. Edmund Spenser.
The snake throws her enamelled skin,
Weed wide enough to wrap a fairy in. William Shakespeare.Throngs of knights and barons bold,
In weeds of peace high triumphs hold,
With store of ladies. John Milton.Lately your fair hand in woman’s weed
Wrapp’d my glad head. Edmund Waller.To Weedverb
Etymology: from the noun.
When you sow the berries of bays, weed not the borders for the first half year; for the weed giveth them shade. Francis Bacon.
Your seedlings having stood ’till June, bestow a weeding or a slight howing upon them. John Mortimer.
Oh Marcius,
Each word thou’st spoke hath weeded from my heart
A root of ancient envy. William Shakespeare, Coriolanus.He weeded the kingdom of such as were devoted to Elaiana, and manumized it from that most dangerous confederacy. James Howell, Vocal Forest.
Sarcasms, contumelies, and invectives, fill so many pages of our controversial writings, that, were those weeded out, many volumes would be reduced to a more moderate bulk and temper. Decay of Piety.
Wise fathers be not as well aware in weeding from their children ill things, as they were before in grafting in them learning. Roger Ascham, Schoolmaster.
One by one, as they appeared, they might all be weeded out, without any signs that ever they had been there. John Locke.
ChatGPT
weed
A weed is any plant that is considered unwanted, undesirable, or intrusive in a certain area, usually in a garden or lawn. Weeds grow rapidly and compete with other plants for nutrients, sunlight, and space, often leading to a negative impact on the growth and development of other plants. The term "weed" does not have any botanical significance as it is applied to a wide range of plant species with similar characteristics.
Webster Dictionary
Weednoun
a garment; clothing; especially, an upper or outer garment
Weednoun
an article of dress worn in token of grief; a mourning garment or badge; as, he wore a weed on his hat; especially, in the plural, mourning garb, as of a woman; as, a widow's weeds
Weednoun
a sudden illness or relapse, often attended with fever, which attacks women in childbed
Weednoun
underbrush; low shrubs
Weednoun
any plant growing in cultivated ground to the injury of the crop or desired vegetation, or to the disfigurement of the place; an unsightly, useless, or injurious plant
Weednoun
fig.: Something unprofitable or troublesome; anything useless
Weednoun
an animal unfit to breed from
Weednoun
tobacco, or a cigar
Weedverb
to free from noxious plants; to clear of weeds; as, to weed corn or onions; to weed a garden
Weedverb
to take away, as noxious plants; to remove, as something hurtful; to extirpate
Weedverb
to free from anything hurtful or offensive
Weedverb
to reject as unfit for breeding purposes
Etymology: [OE. weed, weod, AS. wed, wid, akin to OS. wiod, LG. woden the stalks and leaves of vegetables D. wieden to weed, OS. wiodn.]
Wikidata
Weed
Weed is an every day term used in a variety of senses, usually to describe a plant considered undesirable within a certain context. The word—commonly applied to unwanted plants in human-controlled settings, such as farm fields, gardens, lawns, and parks—carries no botanical classification value, since a plant that is a weed in one context is not a weed when growing where it is wanted. Indeed, a number of plants that many consider weeds are often intentionally grown in gardens and other cultivated settings. Less commonly, the term is applied to any plant that grows and reproduces aggressively outside its native habitat. The term is occasionally used to broadly describe species outside the plant kingdom that can live in diverse environments and reproduce quickly, and has even been applied to humans. weed: "A herbaceous plant not valued for use or beauty, growing wild and rank, and regarded as cumbering the ground or hindering the growth of superior vegetation... Applied to a shrub or tree, especially to a large tree, on account of its abundance in a district... An unprofitable, troublesome, or noxious growth."
Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
Weed
wēd, n. any useless plant of small growth: anything useless or troublesome; a sorry animal, a worthless fellow: (coll.) a cigar.—v.t. to free from weeds: to remove anything hurtful or offensive.—adjs. Weed′ed, Weed′-grown, overgrown with weeds.—n. Weed′er.—n.pl. Weed′er-clips (Scot.), shears for weeding.—ns. Weed′ery, a place full of weeds; Weed′iness; Weed′ing-chis′el, -for′ceps, -fork, -hook, -tongs (pl.) garden implements of varying forms for destroying weeds.—adjs. Weed′less; Weed′y, weed-like, consisting of weeds; worthless. [A.S. wéod, an herb.]
Weed
wēd, n. a garment, esp. in pl. a widow's mourning apparel.—adj. Weed′y, clad in widow's mourning. [A.S. wǽd, clothing; Old High Ger. wāt, cloth; cf. leinwand.]
Weed
wēd, n. (Scot.) a popular name for any sudden illness, cold, or relapse with febrile symptoms in women after confinement or nursing: lymphangitis in the horse.—Also Weid.
Rap Dictionary
weednoun
See marijuana.
weednoun
Past tense of the infinitive "to wee" i.e. something you do on the toilet.
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Surnames Frequency by Census Records
WEED
According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Weed is ranked #4442 in terms of the most common surnames in America.
The Weed surname appeared 7,987 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 3 would have the surname Weed.
92.9% or 7,424 total occurrences were White.
2.2% or 180 total occurrences were of Hispanic origin.
1.9% or 157 total occurrences were Black.
1.3% or 111 total occurrences were of two or more races.
0.8% or 68 total occurrences were American Indian or Alaskan Native.
0.5% or 47 total occurrences were Asian.
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Numerology
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of WEED in Chaldean Numerology is: 2
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of WEED in Pythagorean Numerology is: 1
Examples of WEED in a Sentence
I attribute the quarrelsome nature of the Middle Ages young men entirely to the want of the soothing weed.
A weed is just a plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered.
I see a lot of people using them and teachers don’t know how to look for them, they( Juul users) think it’s better than smoking weed or cigarettes.
What is a weed A plant whose virtues have never been discovered.
John is an outspoken advocate for weed legalization and has always believed we should not be criminalizing addiction, but he does not support decriminalizing all drugs including heroin, methamphetamines and other hard drugs in Pennsylvania, john believes we need to make sure we are locking up drug dealers who are pushing and profiting from hard drugs, while making sure that people get real help if they are addicted.
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- daggaAfrikaans
- عشبة ضارةArabic
- গাঁজাBengali
- mala herbaCatalan, Valencian
- plevel, tráva, plítCzech
- hash, ukrudt, tjald, andemadDanish
- Glimmstängel, Kippe, Unkraut, Gras, jätenGerman
- ŋlɔEwe
- ζιζάνιο, αγριόχορτοGreek
- parásito, maleza, mala hierba, hierba, yuyo, escardarSpanish
- هرز واش, علف هرز, وجین کردنPersian
- pilvi, rikkaruoho, ruoho, kitkeäFinnish
- ókrútFaroese
- chiendent, herbe, marie-jeanne, adventice, mauvaise herbe, désherberFrench
- kjittenWestern Frisian
- fiaileIrish
- lus, luibhScottish Gaelic
- גראסHebrew
- marihuána, gaz, gyom, gyomlálHungarian
- rumput liarIndonesian
- mala herboIdo
- illgresi, grasIcelandic
- maria, erbaccia, diserbareItalian
- 葉巻, ヒヨッコ, 役立たず, 柴, 雑草, 煙草, たばこ, クサ, タバコ, 雑草を抜く, 雑草をとる, 草取りをするJapanese
- სარეველაGeorgian
- 김, 매다, 김매다Korean
- adeKurdish
- viriditasLatin
- OnkrautLuxembourgish, Letzeburgesch
- māheuheu, perepere, pāhika, ngakiMāori
- wiet, kroos, zwakkeling, onkruid, lijngewaadDutch
- hasj, pot, ugressNorwegian
- tytoń, cherlak, chwast, trawka, zielsko, cygaro, mięczak, odchwaszczać, plewićPolish
- erva daninha, maconha, capinarPortuguese
- buruiană, iarbă, a pliviRomanian
- травка, сорняк, сорная трава, полоть, прополотьRussian
- kórov, travaSerbo-Croatian
- MarijuaneAlbanian
- gräs, ogräsSwedish
- kwekweSwahili
- కలుపుTelugu
- วัชพืชThai
- weedUkrainian
- 野草Chinese
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